According to the Department for Education, this is the equivalent of missing a month's worth of lessons in a year. The figures also reveal that more than a million pupils missed half a day or more of school per week, or 10 per cent of lessons.
The latest statistics are part of the government’s efforts to monitor persistent absentees and the first time children who miss 15 per cent or more of school have been classed as being persistently absent.
Across primary and secondary state schools, the percentage of pupils classed as persistent absentees increased, from 7.0 per cent to 7.2 per cent compared to the autumn term in 2009 and spring term in 2010.
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